News

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, the fifth film in the Friday the 13th franchise, is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year – and JoBlo’s own Ryan Cultrera was recently able to catch up with Melanie Kinnaman, who played the film’s heroine, at the Ve Neill’s Vampire Weekend convention in California! Ryan talked with Kinnaman about her experience working on the classic slasher, and you can watch the interview in the video embedded above.

Directed by Danny Steinmann, who also crafted the screenplay with Martin Kitrosser and David Cohen, Friday the 13th: A New Beginning has the following synopsis: Years after Tommy Jarvis murdered hockey-masked serial killer Jason Voorhees, he resides in a mental hospital and struggles with the trauma of the experience. When Tommy moves to an isolated halfway house, he has nightmares about Jason’s return, and soon one of the patients is killed. As the body count grows,...

2025 marks the 40th anniversary of the slasher sequel Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (watch it Here) – and last week, we saw that Gutter Garbs was celebrating the movie with a line of shirts, hoodies, and buttons that was only available for pre-orders this past weekend. If you missed out on the Gutter Garbs items, here’s some good news: Fright Rags is also celebrating Friday the 13th: A New Beginning with a line of T-shirts! You can see some sample images at the bottom of this article, and you can order the shirts at This Link.

Directed by Danny Steinmann, who also crafted the screenplay with Martin Kitrosser and David Cohen, Friday the 13th: A New Beginning has the following synopsis: Years after Tommy Jarvis murdered hockey-masked serial killer Jason Voorhees, he resides in a mental hospital and struggles with the trauma of the experience. When Tommy moves to an isolated halfway house,...

Sex. Drugs. Terror. It must be Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning.

The slasher sequel was released 40 years ago today, and Fright-Rags is celebrating with new apparel.

Kyle Crawford created four designs: a theatrical promo-style tee, international-inspired artwork, Jason hawking the videocassette, and an homage to Demon’s enchilada-fueled outhouse song.

All four designs are printed on super soft 4.5oz 100% pre-shrunk ringspun cotton T-shirts for $33. The international artwork also comes on Comfort Colors tees for $34.

Don’t forget that Gutter Garbs’ Friday the 13th Part V apparel is available this weekend as well.

Directed by Danny Steinmann, the 1985 film stars John Shepherd, Melanie Kinnaman, Shavar Ross, Richard Young, and Tom Morga as Jason Voorhees.

The post Fright-Rags Celebrates ‘Friday the 13th Part V’ 40th Anniversary with New Tees appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

2025 marks the 40th anniversary of the slasher sequel Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (watch it Here) – and to mark the occasion, Gutter Garbs has unveiled a line of shirts, hoodies, and buttons that will only be available for order this weekend! If you don’t get your order in by 11:59pm Eastern time this Sunday, March 23, you’ll have missed your chance to own these items. So go grab them at This Link! Images of some of the items can be seen at the bottom of this article. Gutter Garbs will start shipping them out the week of April 20.

Directed by Danny Steinmann, who also crafted the screenplay with Martin Kitrosser and David Cohen, Friday the 13th: A New Beginning has the following synopsis: Years after Tommy Jarvis murdered hockey-masked serial killer Jason Voorhees, he resides in a mental hospital and struggles with the trauma of the experience.

This month marks the 40th anniversary of Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning, and Gutter Garbs is celebrating with new apparel.

Jason Voorhees haunts Tommy Jarvis on Sam Coyne‘s design, Yannick Bouchard illustrates faux-Jason alongside his victims, and Kyle Crawford recreates the hockey mask from the film’s VHS cover.

All three designs are available on T-shirts for $32 and Comfort Colors tees for $34. Select designs also come on long sleeves for $40, zip-up or pullover hoodies for $55, and 12×18 posters for $30.

A set of five 1.25″ buttons from Beyond Horror Design is also available for $7.

A “get it or regret it” timed release, pre-orders run through Sunday, March 23, and will ship the week of April 20.

Directed by Danny Steinmann, the 1985 slasher sequel stars John Shepherd, Melanie Kinnaman, Shavar Ross, Richard Young, and Tom Morga as Jason Voorhees.

The post Celebrate 40 Years of ‘Friday the 13th: A New Beginning’ with Gutter...

South African born SAG Award nominee Stelio Savante, also known as ‘Ajax’ in the Call Of Duty video game series and ‘Moses’ in the historical world-wide hit biblical series The Chosen, is starring in key roles in three upcoming films, all based on true stories. Sarah’s Oil, Between Borders, and Hazel.

Sarah’s Oil, is an Amazon MGM drama starring Zachary Levi, Naya Desir Johnson, Sonequa Martin Green, Garret Dillahunt, Bridget Regan, Kenric Green, Adyan Copes, Stelio Savante and Mel Rodriguez. Sarah’s Oil is inspired by Tonya Bolden’s book Searching for Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl in America, and tells the true story of Sarah Rector, an African American born in Oklahoma in the early 1900s. Filmed in Oklahoma, the drama chronicles Sarah’s journey to becoming the first African American teenage millionaire. Cyrus Nowrasteh (who also directed Savante in the action thriller Infidel) directed Sarah’s Oil from...

It’s Friday the 13th, and we have decided to celebrate by releasing a new episode of the What Happened to This Horror Movie? video series that digs into one of the more divisive entries in the Friday the 13th film franchise: the fifth entry, 1985’s Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (watch it Here), a movie that doesn’t have Jason Voorhees or his mother doing the killing. This time around, the slashing was done by a copycat – and you can hear all about it in the video embedded above.

Directed by Danny Steinmann, who also crafted the screenplay with Martin Kitrosser and David Cohen, Friday the 13th: A New Beginning has the following synopsis: Years after Tommy Jarvis murdered hockey-masked serial killer Jason Voorhees, he resides in a mental hospital and struggles with the trauma of the experience. When Tommy moves to an isolated halfway house, he has nightmares about Jason’s return,...

Friday the 13th fans, get ready to watch Crispin Glover show off his bizarre and hilarious dance moves on the Silver Screen once again at Camp Crystal Lake. In honor of the horror films 40th anniversary, director Joesph Zitos Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) is returning to the big screen for a limited theatrical engagement this September.

The Final Chapter, which features Jason Voorhees (Ted White) going up against the SFX make-up obsessed protagonist Tommy Jarvis (Corey Feldman) for the very first time, returns to cinemas courtesy of Fangoria magazine and Paramount Scares. The announcement reads as follows (per Cinemark):

A part of the Scream Greats Series, presented by Paramount Scares & Fangoria [...] Paramount Scares and Fangoria have teamed up to bring you a fun movie pre-show! Hosted by renowned actor David Dastmalchian (Late Night with the Devil), we take a look back at the history of the Friday the 13th...

Exclusive: Zachary Levi (Hotel Tehran) and Naya Desir-Johnson (The Equalizer) are toplining Sarah’s Oil, a new theatrical drama from Amazon MGM Studios that has wrapped production.

Others in the cast include Sonequa Martin-Green (Star Trek: Discovery), Garret Dillahunt (Raising Hope), Bridget Regan (Jane the Virgin), Kenric Green (The Walking Dead), Adyan Copes (Who Is Christmas Eve?), Stelio Savante (The Cleaning Lady) and Mel Rodriguez (The Last Man on Earth).

Inspired by Tonya Bolden’s book Searching for Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl in America, Sarah’s Oil tells the true story of Sarah Rector, an African American born in Oklahoma Indian Territory in the early 1900s, who believes there is oil beneath the barren land she’s allotted and whose faith is proven right. As greedy oil sharks close in, Sarah turns to her family, friends and some Texas wildcatters to maintain control of her oil-rich land, eventually becoming one...

The Friday the 13th franchise has seen many revisions of Jason Voorhees' iconic outfit, with each movie revealing a different stage in his character journey. Not every costume is created equal, with some of Jason's looks being less impressive than others. The fake Jason in Friday the 13th: A New Beginning lacks screen time and doesn't live up to the real Jason's official look. Some of Jason's looks, like the one in Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, feature impressive makeup and visual design, showcasing a frighteningly rotten visage and distressed outfit.

In the Friday the 13th franchise, seeing the Jason Voorhees outfit in each movie reveals where he is at in his character journey. Though possessing an iconic look, no other slasher villain has gone through as many revisions as Jason. Except for the first movie, the franchise follows Jason Voorhees, who seemingly drowned as a...

The masks in the Friday the 13th series changed over time, reflecting the evolution of Jason Voorhees as a slasher killer. Each movie in the series featured a different mask, ranging from iconic to disappointing, but Jason's appearance remained one of the most iconic in slasher horror movie history. In some movies, the masks showed degradation and deterioration, symbolizing the loss of Jason's humanity and hinting at his demonic presence.

The Jason Voorhees masks changed little by little as the Friday the 13th series wore on, and it was easy to see Jason's humanity slipping away as the masks deteriorated. Friday the 13th began in 1980 when Sean Cunningham directed the first movie in the franchise about a mysterious killer taking out young people at a summer camp called Crystal Lake. However, that first movie wasn't about Jason, it was about his mother, Pamela Voorhees, killing counselors as she continued to...

Jason Voorhees from the Friday the 13th franchise never truly dies despite being killed multiple times. One explanation for Jason's constant resurrections is given in Friday the 13th Part VI, which also explains his more supernatural abilities. Another potential explanation for Jason's immortality and superhuman feats involves a somewhat quiet connection to another popular horror franchise.

Friday the 13th's Jason Voorhees is one of the iconic monsters of the slasher horror genre. Like many of his kind (including Halloween's Michael Myers), Jason never truly stays dead in any of his films. This could be because of his mysterious death as a child. At a young age, Jason Voorhees drowned while attending Camp Crystal Lake. The counselors who were supposed to watch him were too busy having fun and participating in sexual activities. This caused his mother, Pamela Voorhees (Betsy Palmer), to kill two teenage counselors.

Two decades passed,...

The episode of The Test of Time covering Friday the 13th: A New Beginning was Written by Andrew Hatfield, Narrated by Niki Minter, Edited by Mike Conway, Produced by John Fallon and Tyler Nichols, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

Sometimes with a franchise, and I’m talking about a bona fide, hit making franchise that churns out money and fans movie over movie, you gotta change it up. Sometimes this happens with the main character going to space, or hell, or fighting Freddy Kruger… ok, it’s Jason. We are talking about Jason and his Friday the 13th series. On this channel we’ve seen many defenses of entries that could have been the Black Sheep, we’ve taken a gander and what the eff happened to the movie from production to release, and we’ve even looked at movies that were never made. When you take a...

Gutter Garbs has just unveiled a new line of merchandise inspired by the 1985 slasher Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (watch it Here) – and this line, which consists of a T-shirt, a poster, and an enamel pin, will only be available for order this weekend! If you don’t get your order in by 11:59pm Eastern time this Sunday, July 30th, you’ll have missed your chance to own these items. So go grab them at This Link!

Images of the shirt, poster, and pin can be seen at the bottom of this article.

Directed by Danny Steinmann, who also crafted the screenplay with Martin Kitrosser and David Cohen, Friday the 13th: A New Beginning has the following synopsis: Years after Tommy Jarvis murdered hockey-masked serial killer Jason Voorhees, he resides in a mental hospital and struggles with the trauma of the experience. When Tommy moves to an isolated halfway house,...

When you think slashers, your mind immediately goes to the Final Girl. While the term wasn't coined until 1992, it was a prevalent trope throughout the '70s and '80s, namely through such works as "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" (Sally Hardesty), "Black Christmas" (Jess Bradford), and "Halloween" (Laurie Strode). These trendsetting heroines cemented the idea that women could be the heroes of their own stories. In many cases, the Final Girl just happened to be the last woman standing through sheer luck; in others, they slashed their way to triumph all on their own. One of the franchises most known for its many Final Girls is "Friday the 13th," which dominated the 1980s and showcased some of the slasher genre's most iconic protagonists.

Throughout its run 一 from the 1980 original to the 2009 remake 一 the series' Final Girls have run the gamut. Some are tough-as-nails warriors from the get-go,...

Hey there, campers. Are you ready for another scintillating installment of our horror franchise power rankings, this time for the blood-curdling series that cannot be killed by conventional means, Friday The 13th? Please note: if you haven’t watched these movies but intend to one day do so, you’d be advised to read no further than these introductory paragraphs.

Obviously, this is not the first Friday The 13th movie ranking list. Or the second. Or the third. Or the fourth. Or the fifth. But it is, as of this writing, the newest.

What makes Friday The 13th, a critically-reviled saga that turned 40 this year, unique among the all-time stalwart slasher franchises is the fact that its formula (and its signature killer) is constantly evolving and wholly permeable to suit whatever type of story its tellers want to create.

The first film was designed as a one-off Halloween (1978) and Psycho (1960) rip-off,...

The Friday the 13th series hasn’t traditionally been much for continuity of narrative logic, with its entries jumping around in time, rehashing origin stories and generally resisting a clear through-line for fans. The twelve films and multiple appearances of Jason Voorhees in other media share some common elements, but different creators have tweaked the history of the series to their liking. A new video from Looper has taken on the challenge, though, of explaining the whole Friday the 13th story, which at least represents an honest effort to add reason to the franchise.

The video, which you can see below, starts with the familiar backstory of the original Friday the 13th, where young Jason drowns at Camp Crystal Lake in 1958 after being neglected by two amorous counsellors, who then get their comeuppance. Following that, we get a recap of the events twenty years later, where counsellors are brutally taken...

Emanuel, a documentary about the 2015 Charleston church shooting in which white supremacist Dylann Roof killed nine African American parishioners, has signed on NBA star Stephen Curry and Viola Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions as executive producers. The move comes ahead of the Brian Ivie-directed film’s screening at Doc NYC later this month. CAA is repping worldwide sales.

The docu features interviews with survivors and family members and is a poignant story of justice and faith, love and hate, and the healing power of forgiveness. It was made in partnership with the city of Charleston and the victims’ families.

“Emanuel is an incredibly powerful film and we’re honored to come on board as executive producers,” said Curry of his Unanimous Media banner. “The documentary highlights how a horrible tragedy can bring a community together, and spreads an important message about the power of forgiveness. Stories like...

Viola Davis and Stephen Curry have signed on as executive producers of “Emanuel,” a documentary about the 2015 mass murder of black churchgoers by a white supremacist.

Unanimous Media, the production company of NBA superstar Curry, and Viola Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions join as executive producers of the film alongside Dane Smith, David Segel and Tina Segel.

“Emanuel” documents the events of June 17, 2015, when 21-year-old Dylann Roof walked into a bible-study group at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., and shot and killed nine African-Americans during their closing prayer.

Directed by Brian Ivie (“The Drop Box”), the documentary is produced by John Shepherd, Mike Wildt and Dimas Salaberrios. “Emanuel” was made in direct partnership with the city of Charleston and all 10 affected families, featuring interviews with survivors and family members. Producers describe the film as “a poignant story of justice and faith, love and hate,...

“Jason Voorhees is dead! His body was cremated. He’s nothing but a handful of ash!”

Friday The 13th Part V: A New Beginning was supposed to screen Midnights this weekend at The Moolah Theater and Lounge (3821 Lindell Blvd, St. Louis, Mo 63108) as part of Destroy the Brain’s monthly Late Night Grindhouse film series but it has been postponed becasue of the weather until next weekend (January 20th and 21st).

Okay, so Friday The 13th Part V: A New Beginning is hardly a subtle, and tasteful work of sophisticated cinematic art, but it is so incredibly crass, coarse, and unapologetically trashy that it’s always entertaining and occasionally even downright sidesplitting in its gleeful go-for-it nastiness. Director/co-writer Danny Steinmann (also responsible for the terrific Linda Blair rape-and-revenger Savage Streets) deserves credit for effectively creating and sustaining an engrossingly sleazy atmosphere throughout and eschewing the by now exceedingly tiresome...

“Jason Voorhees is dead! His body was cremated. He’s nothing but a handful of ash!”

Friday The 13th Part V: A New Beginning screens Midnights this weekend (January 13th and 14th) at The Moolah Theater and Lounge (3821 Lindell Blvd, St. Louis, Mo 63108) as part of Destroy the Brain’s monthly Late Night Grindhouse film series.

Okay, so Friday The 13th Part V: A New Beginning is hardly a subtle, and tasteful work of sophisticated cinematic art, but it is so incredibly crass, coarse, and unapologetically trashy that it’s always entertaining and occasionally even downright sidesplitting in its gleeful go-for-it nastiness. Director/co-writer Danny Steinmann (also responsible for the terrific Linda Blair rape-and-revenger Savage Streets) deserves credit for effectively creating and sustaining an engrossingly sleazy atmosphere throughout and eschewing the by now exceedingly tiresome summer camp slaughter format for a fresh and different approach that’s essentially a vulgar...

Christian advocacy organization Faith Driven Consumer will be joining a panel on faith-based entertainment at Variety’s #PurposeSummit in Los Angeles’ Four Seasons Beverly Hills June 25. The panel—titled Winning the Pastor and the Pew: How to Get the Must-Reach Faith Driven Consumer™ Audience to Endorse and Support Your Project—will be moderated by Fdc’s founder Chris Stone and will include prominent industry professionals including “Lord of the Rings” producer Mark Ordesky of Court Five Entertainment; Mpower Pictures president John Shepherd; and executive vice president of Td Jakes Enterprises Derrick Williams. Variety’s day-long event titled Purpose: The Family Entertainment & Faith-Based Summit is dedicated to the growth of faith-based and family-friendly programming. “In understanding the power of the Faith Driven Consumer, the entertainment industry is at the tip of the spear, ahead of corporate retail brands in the race to attract this customer base,” said Stone in a statement.

Wow. So much has happened in Crystal Lake since our last visit. Mrs Voorhees got in over her head. Someone attempted to open another camp, a lot of people went to the lake to relax, and they’re all dead. Oh, and Jason, Mrs Voorhees’ son, isn’t dead. Maybe he didn’t even drown because he’s a full grown man running around the woods killing and maiming. Except for Tommy Jarvis, a young boy who killed Jason in part 4, The Final Chapter. But after the box office returns there was nothing final about that chapter.

Years after his deadly encounter with Jason Voorhees Tommy Jarvis (John Shepard) is being moved to the Pinehusrt Youth Development Center. This halfway house has some pretty odd patients, fat guy who loves chocolate, a stutterer, nymphos, nonspecific sub cultured girl, and a redhead(?). Why are they actually there? Far away from Crystal...

Reviewed by Kevin Scott

Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985)

Written by: Martin Kitrosser, David Cohen, Danny Steinmann

Directed by: Danny Steinmann

Cast: Shavar Ross (Reggie), Melanie Kinnaman (Pam), John Shepherd (Tommy Jarvis), Richard Young (Matt), Debisue Voorhees (Tina), John Robert Dixon (Eddie), Juliette Cummins (Robin), Jerry Pavlon (Jake), Dominick Brascia (Joey), Tiffany Helm (Violet), Mark Venturini (Vic), Miguel A. Nunez Jr. (Demon)

This film was the very first one that I wrote any kind review for on an online platform. That was the first brave step in my cause for championing this film. Albeit, it was a small step, because maybe two people probably stumbled across it. Either way, I did it and I’m not ashamed. Matter of fact, I’m taking it to the big show by including it here. All of my feelings for this bastard child of the series just happened to resurface...

The Tommy Jarvis “trilogy” of Friday the 13th movies is among the franchise’s most popular. When looking at The Final Chapter, A New Beginning, and Jason Lives, it’s clear that we’re talking about three very different slasher movies—each with its own style.

They utilize the Tommy Jarvis protagonist in three very different ways, and there isn’t a massive character arc that strings them together, but they lend an air of continuity to a series that rarely bothered to have any.

Why does Tommy remain a consistent fan favorite? Examining the popular decisions of other franchises may help bring the issue into focus.

Surely we can agree that Dr. Loomis lends weight to the Halloween series as the boogeyman’s foil. He’s what every villain’s nemesis should be: resourceful, determined, and flawed. It’s this combination that I would argue makes him an enduring character.

We've seen Jason Voorhees stab a lot of people in the head... and everywhere else for that matter. That being said, the following video is something so ridiculously funny and hilarious that it's guaranteed to embed itself in your mind. Especially when your chillin' in an outhouse!

Somewhere right now director Danny Steinmann is smiling down on us all.

Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning Synopsis:

The murderous spirit of Jason Voorhees lives on in this horror sequel, although the plot hinges on the mystery of whether the killer's body actually survives. Opening with a nightmare prologue in which Corey Feldman reprises his role as Tommy Jarvis, the boy who killed Jason in the previous installment, the film jumps forward several years to when a teenaged Tommy (John Shepherd), haunted by visions of Jason returning to life, moves into a group home for mentally disturbed kids. Almost as soon as he arrives,...

A genuine mystery and all-around obsession arose in 1986 during the “discovery phase” of my relationship with horror in the mid-1980s. It would last until the early summer of 2008.

It was something I could not share with my friends or my family, and in those pre-internet days, information (such as the type I needed) was in short supply, and there was little hope that I would ever find the answers I was so desperately looking for.

The question at hand…

Who was Danny Steinmann?

He was the director of my personal favorite of the Friday the 13th films…the often-derided and misunderstood Part V: A New Beginning, released in 1985. He also had the action/exploitation flick Savage Streets to his name from 1984. But that was it, as far as I knew at the time. For months on end, I scanned the pages of Fangoria for word on Mr. Steinmann’s next film,...

One could argue that Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter is the best sequel in the twelve films made thus far in the franchise. It has some of the series' greatest kills, it features George McFly (Crispin Glover) getting a corkscrew in the eyeball, and it sets up Jason Voorhees' greatest adversary in Tommy Jarvis, originally played by Corey Feldman.

12-year-old Tommy Jarvis, an SFX make-up enthusiast, was the only person to ever defeat Jason single handedly in a fist fight (so to speak). And for years, fans have been clamoring for his return.

The character appeared again in Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, played for a second time by Corey Feldman in a flashback at the very beginning of the movie. John Shepherd then assumes the role, playing an older Jarvis who winds up at a halfway house for special needs kids. The character appeared for a 3rd...

As much as I love it, the Friday the 13th series isn’t exactly bound by strong continuity. Jason’s look fluctuates like the weather, people flock to Camp Crystal Lake in droves, seemingly unaware that it never turns out well for those involved, and Why does the camp look like it’s in a different state for every film (don’t answer that)?

That’s not to even begin trying to piece together a strict sense of passing time throughout the Paramount-era films. Ever try? Dating everything out, the best you can do is place Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood in the year 1999 or 2000 – which is amazingly problematic to say the least considering Kevin Blair runs around in denim the entire movie.

Along the way there have been many Wtf moments. Characters disappear, others reappear. People stumble in out of nowhere just to be killed and then forgotten about.

The Friday the 13th series was never huge on recurring characters. For the most part everyone was killed off so there was obviously no need for redundance. There is one character in particular who wasn’t a throwaway recurrence like that of Alice (parts 1 & 2) or Crazy Ralph (again Parts 1 &2), but a feature character in three consecutive sequels; Tommy Jarvis.

We first meet Tommy Jarvis through Friday the 13th Part 4: The Final Chapter where he is played by Corey Feldman. This would be the start of Feldman being a formidable child star. At that time he had mainly starred in TV, but after this a succession of 3 films; Gremlins, The Goonies and Stand By Me would solidify his status in Hollywood. Tommy Jarvis in The Final Chapter is a precocious 12 year old boy who lives with his mother and sister near Camp Crystal Lake. There’s nothing that remarkable about...

Ray Liotta talks Snowmen, shooting in Park City, Utah, working with the kids in this movie, The Iceman, and more

I shouldn't have to write any sort of detailed background info paragraph about the legendary Ray Liotta. If you've been following cinema in any capacity in the past 25 years, Ray Liotta's performances should be embedded in your brain somewhere. While he's known for his more rugged characters, the actor definitely likes to mix it up, and his latest film, Snowmen, is a testament to that mentality. Ray Liotta portrays Reggie Kirkfield, a used car salesman known for his flamboyant TV commercials and showmanship. But, at home, he's a much different man, trying to provide for his family while his young son (Bobby Coleman) goes through cancer treatments. I recently had the chance to speak with Ray Liotta over the phone about Snowmen, which arrives in theaters October 21. Here's what he had to say below.

The preceding was the final chapter, so why am I writing this review? Well, you can.t keep Jason down.or can you? Does old hockey face really appear in the film? Stay tuned to find out though I think you already know the answer. Tommy Jarvis (John Shepherd) has been moved from one mental institution to the next. Tommy has grown up into a sulking, nearly silent young man who still has dreams of being pursued by Jason (leading to a Corey Feldman cameo) and is being transferred to the Pinehurst Halfway House. The facility is run by Matt (Richard Young) and Pam (Melanie Kinnaman) who operate it on the honor system with lax security which angers their hillbilly...

It only figures that Paramount Pictures would continue their DVD re-releases of the original Friday the 13th flicks with that 2009 remake still generating so much discussion. After all, it's not like a Hollywood studio to overlook an opportunity to make some extra money. Still, I have to give them at least a little bit of credit. A lot of care was taken in producing those Deluxe Editions of Friday the 13th, part I, II and III. The transfers were, by-and-large, excellent, the sound was a definite improvement and a lot of creativity went into compiling all the special features. If a studio is going to double-dip, for fans this is how it should be done. While none of these films are what I'd call my personal favorites, they're all such silly guilty pleasures it's hard to work up much in the way of anger towards those who might feel different.

Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning gets a bad rap from series loyalists. If you don’t know anything about it, I won’t spoil it, but there are certain aspects of it that irk people immensely. The major criticism the film gets doesn’t really bother me at all, but I still don’t enjoy the film. It’s a slow, murky and very mean-spirited film that doesn’t really fit in with the series all that well. Gone is the brutal but fun-loving spirit of The Final Chapter and the action movie bonanza of the later entries is nowhere in sight. What we’re left with is a black sheep and, for what it is, it just doesn’t work all that well. It’s a cruel movie with unlikeable characters and unwarranted deaths, and it just can’t pull that combo off like some of...

Every slasher fan has their own choice as the best in the original Jason Voorhees film series, and mine is Friday The 13th Part VI: Jason Lives. From its opening title that winks at the James Bond flicks, this entry provided a welcome sense of knowing humor to the by-then repetitious proceedings, without making fun of Jason himself. (As writer/director Tom McLoughlin has often stated, and does so again on the new Deluxe Edition DVD, that was one of franchise producer Frank Mancuso Jr.’s directives when McLoughlin took this gig.)

Those light touches, and the general panache McLoughlin brings to the film, were a refreshing change from the crudities of the previous A New Beginning (which doesn’t actually sport a Part V on screen—and, as mentioned on its own Deluxe disc, was actually called Repetition during filming). Director/co-writer Danny Steinmann does bring a rude energy to this entry,...

Well, it’s been seven years since Jason Voorhees chopped up foolish teens exclusively. Sure he shared screen time with Freddy Krueger in 2003’s crossover Freddy Vs Jason, yes he accumulated quite the body count in the film, yes it was a lot of fun, and yes the film was pretty damn successful, but diehard fans such as myself certainly missed that special “alone time” with Mr. Voorhees. Now Jason is back, solely stealing the spotlight and the lives of reckless youngins, and despite a mostly negative critical response and dismal box office staying power, he's still one massive murdering machine.

Over the last 29 years Jason has claimed more victims than even imaginable. From random teens, to strange drifters, to diner employees, Jason has eliminated just about everyone to (unluckily) grace the big screen with the masked menace. As a result of Voorhees’ obnoxious kill rate, fans have pondered the...